“Coming Home” by Wisconsin student wins U.S. 2013 Doodle 4 Google competition

“Coming Home” by Wisconsin student wins U.S. 2013 Doodle 4 Google competition
After 130,000 submissions and millions of votes cast, Sabrina Brady of Sparta, Wisc. has been named the 2013 U.S. Doodle 4 Google National Winner. Her doodle, “Coming Home,” will be featured on the Google homepage in the U.S. tomorrow, May 23.Students...

The 2013 Doodle 4 Google state winners are in and it’s time for you to vote!

The 2013 Doodle 4 Google state winners are in and it’s time for you to vote!
Students from across the country sent in more than 130,000 doodles for our 2013 U.S. Doodle 4 Google competition. Today, we’re proud to share with you our 50 amazingly talented state winners. Exploring their “Best Day Ever...” from life down under to...

Following the lead of nature’s engineers

Following the lead of nature’s engineers
It’s no surprise that Google appreciates engineers. And this Earth Day, we’re looking at some of our favorite engineers from nature to see how they can teach us to treat the environment better. We’ve created a website where we can see the beauty and...

Doodle 4 Google: A stately competition

Doodle 4 Google: A stately competition
Are you a young artist from California? Alabama? Or Indiana (like me!)? Well, get doodling with the topic “My Best Day Ever…” for a chance to see your very own artwork on the Google homepage—and help represent your piece of the union.Today marks the...

Honouring computing’s 1843 visionary, Lady Ada Lovelace

Honouring computing’s 1843 visionary, Lady Ada Lovelace
Last year, a group of us were lucky enough to visit the U.K. Prime Minister’s residence at 10 Downing Street, as part of the Silicon Valley Comes to the U.K. initiative. While there, we asked about some of the paintings on the wall. When we got to a...

A tribute to Turing, the father of modern computing

A tribute to Turing, the father of modern computing
“The past is a foreign country—they do things differently there.” It’s a saying that rings especially true in the world of technology. But while innovating requires us to focus on the future, there are times when it’s important to look back. Today—the...

A tribute to Bob Moog, sonic doodler

A tribute to Bob Moog, sonic doodler
In the mid-1960s, Dr. Robert Moog unleashed a new universe of sounds into musicdom with his invention of the electronic analog Moog Synthesizer. The timbre and tones of these keyboard instruments (true works of art in and of themselves) would come to...

Shiver me timbers, the 2012 D4G Winner is....

Shiver me timbers, the 2012 D4G Winner is....
After 114,000 submissions and millions of your votes, second grader Dylan Hoffman of Caledonia, Wisc. is this year’s U.S. Doodle 4 Google National Winner. His doodle “Pirate Times” will be featured on the U.S. Google homepage tomorrow, May 18.Hoffman,...

The Doodle 4 Google State Winners—and time to vote for the National!

The Doodle 4 Google State Winners—and time to vote for the National!
Today we’re excited to announce the 50 State Winners of the 2012 U.S. Doodle 4 Google competition. We received a record-breaking 114,000 submissions from all corners of the country—from North Pole, Alaska, to Suwanee, Ga. Young artists doodled their...

Adding an origami doodle to the fold

Adding an origami doodle to the fold
We’re excited to have Robert J. Lang here to talk about today’s doodle in honor of Akira Yoshizawa. Lang is considered one of the world’s masters of the art of origami. His design techniques are used by origami artists around the world, and he lectures...

Doodle 4 Google: “If I could travel in time, I’d visit...”

Doodle 4 Google: “If I could travel in time, I’d visit...”
Starting today, we’d like to invite K-12 students in the U.S. to participate in our fifth annual U.S. Doodle 4 Google contest. Draw your rendition of the Google logo and you may see it on the ultimate gallery: the Google homepage. The winning doodler...

Happy 100th birthday, Charles Samuel Addams

Happy 100th birthday, Charles Samuel Addams
From time to time we invite guests to post about items of interest and are pleased to have H. Kevin Miserocchi, executive director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, join us today to talk about cartoonist Charles Samuel Addams. Addams is best...

Dabble in Doodle history on our new site

Dabble in Doodle history on our new site
Have you ever seen a doodle you loved, but when you went to see it again it was gone? Ever curious about what doodles in Italy look like, or how your favorite holiday has been celebrated each year? Or wanted to get a behind-the-scenes scoop on the recent...

Which came first, the turkey or the hand?

Which came first, the turkey or the hand?
Creating hand turkeys remains one of my favorite elementary school memories—glue on the table, colorful feathers stuck to your sleeve and glitter everywhere. This year, you have the option to skip the actual mess involved with making these classic Thanksgiving...